Internal Tag: Wishful Thinking
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Saturday, January 15, 2005
Examples of Wishful Thinking
The advocate claims that something must be true on the grounds that they wish it were true.
Podcast:
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Podcast:
Hit this link to go to the podcast to download/subscribe, and full show notes: Tutorial 16 - Wishful Thinking, or just play it below.
FALLACIES
ad hominem
Ambiguity
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Celebrity
Appeal to Celebrity.
Argument by Artifice
Argument by Slogan
Argument to Consequences
Bad Faith
Begging the Question
Browbeating
Burden of Proof
Burden of solution
Devil's Advocate
Exaggerated Conflict
Factoid Propagation
False Analogy
False Attribution
False Cause; Correlation Error
False Dichotomy
False dilemma
False Positioning
Gibberish
GIGO.
humbug hunting
Hume's Razor
immunised hypothesis
Impugning Motives
Inversion
LAME
Misuse of Information
Moral Equivalence
Moving the Goalposts
Naturalistic Fallacy
Non-sequitur
Occam's Razor
Perfect Solution
Personal Abuse
Poisoning the Well
Popular Opinion
postdiction
Red Flag Faux Pas
Red Herring
Reductio Ad Absurdum
Sanctimony
Self Defeating Argument
Simple-Minded Certitude
Skeptics of Carlos
Slippery Slope
Socratic Method
Special Pleading
Spinning another hypothesis
Stacking the Deck
Straw Man
Substitution
The Devil's Advocate
Unfounded Generalisation
Weasel Words
Wishful Thinking
WTF? Fallacy
